Africa · Western Africa

Senegal

4 cities in the atlas · 3 airports with scheduled flights

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Gorée · Photo: Fawaz.tairou · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Capital: Dakar
Currency: XOF; West African Franc
Local time: Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +221
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C, E and K

Facts

Senegal in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Dakar
Currency: West African Franc XOFToday's indicative rate: XOF 100 ≈ USD 0.171Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: Wolof and FrenchOfficial in part of the country: Fulah, Serer and Jola-FonyiSpoken: French, Wolof and Fulah
Time zones: Greenwich Mean TimeUTC+00:00
Calling code: +221
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C, E and K230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 17police18fireAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 18,931,966 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 196,190 km²
Internet domain: .sn
Land borders: Gambia Guinea Guinea-Bissau Mali Mauritania

When to go

Climate across Senegal

In December to April, more than half of the 3 cities with figures in Senegal have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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Cool
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Dakar	24°	22°	22°	21°	23°	25°	27°	28°	28°	29°	28°	26°
Thiès	30°	30°	31°	31°	32°	33°	32°	31°	31°	32°	32°	30°
Touba	32°	35°	38°	40°	41°	39°	35°	32°	32°	34°	35°	33°
Cities good for going, of 3	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	2

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Senegal is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Senegal

All 4 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Smaller places with an airport · 1

Ziguinchor

Airports

Airports in Senegal

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

DSSBlaise Diagne International AirportDakar

Medium airports · 2

Photographs

Senegal in pictures

Photographs from Wikimedia Commons, each credited to its author, with its licence.

Dakar
Photo: Jeff Attaway · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Senegal

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.